Uwe Boll's Alone in the Dark
Uwe Boll's Alone in the Dark
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Why video game film adaptations used to suck and don’t anymore | Uwe Boll interview

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 14 min

Uwe Boll has been contemplating a tough question lately. Why are video game adaptations like the Super Mario Bros. Movie and The Last of Us on HBO taking off now? And why didn’t they take off when he was making them a decade ago?

And the question for us is this: Did we need to have Uwe Boll before we had these recent successes? Don’t get us wrong. We’re not making fun of Boll. He had a passion for video games and he saw an opportunity to bring them to the big screen. He also made a profit on his razor-thin budget movies.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.